The root of the site http://example.com correctly identifies index.html and renders it. In a similar manner, I want, http://example.com/foo to fetch foo.html present in the root of the directory. The site that uses this functionality is www.zachholman.com. I've seen his code in Github. But still I'm not able to find how it is done. Please help.
This feature is actually available in Jekyll. Just add the following line to your _config.yml:
permalink: pretty
This will enable links to posts and pages without .html extension, e.g.
/about/ instead of /about.html
/YYYY/MM/DD/my-first-post/ instead of YYYY-MM-DD-my-first-post.html
However, you lose the ability to customize permalinks... and the trailing slash is pretty ugly.
Edit: The trailing slash seems to be there by design
It's actually the server that needs adjusting, not jekyll. Be default, jekyll is going to produces files with .html extensions. There may be a way around that, but it's unlikely that you really want to do go that route. Instead, you need to let your web server know that you want those files served when a URL is called with the file's basename (and no extension).
If your site is served via an Apache web server you can enable the "MultiViews" option. In most cases, you can do that be creating an .htaccess file at your site root with the following line:
Options +MultiViews
With this option enabled, when Apache receives a request for:
http://example.com/foo
It will serve the file:
/foo.html
Note that the Apache server must be setup to allow the option to be set in the htaccess file. If not, you would need to do it in the Apache config file itself. If your site is hosted on another web server, you'll need to look for an equivalent setting.
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Folks, help is needed and MUCH appreciated with a fuzzy behaviour of Jekyll site deployed to Github.
The site works perfectly when putting it up and using it in the local machine (through 'jekyll serve'). The surprise came up upon deployment to Github, the HTML 'posts.html' page created to show the post list does not get rendered at all. The rest of the site is up and running fine, but once the link is clicked to reach the mentioned page the browser is trying to DOWNLOAD the file, instead of rendering.
If you need to have a peek at the code:
https://github.com/zekdeluca/zekdeluca.github.io
And the site can be seen at:
http://zekdeluca.github.io/
Thanks in advance!
It has to do with the permalink and how the extension-less urls are working. If you add a trailing slash to your url it will work. If you are trying to do it without the trailing slash, I was under the impression that what you did would work on GH.
Something like permalink: /my-page/ will work and it creates a folder called my-page with an index.html file in it. The url will show as /my-page/ without the index.html - pretty except the trailing slash.
If you do permalink: /my-page it should be making a file my-page.html, but in your case it seemed to have made just my-page with no extension, which is then being served as a file by github and it doesn't seem to know what it is so it is downloading it instead of serving it.
There seems to be a lot of conflicting info on this, I think the behavior has changed recently, and maybe the version GH is using is able to output a file with no extension? I did not think that was the case.
more reading:
http://overengineer.net/pretty-extensionless-urls-in-github-pages-using-jekyll/
Jekyll extension-less permalinks with markdown
I have a website that lives within a folder one level off the root of the website. This was done because it used to host multiple web applications, but the other application has been retired and now the domain is used for just the site. We want to move it out of the folder and into the root of the domain
Current: website.com/main/page.php
Want: website.com/page.php
The issue is all the links that are out there that have the old location. I would like to have a .config file that lives in the old directory and have it re-direct to the link by just removing "main" from the URL. What is the best way to go about doing this?
One way of doing this is by using HTTP redirect
This method is explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC3kJnhlofw
I've taken on the webmaster role for a website that uses DNN version 07.02.02. Most of the links to my pdf files are broken. They pdfs were in a folder called "/pdfs" now they're in a new folder "/docs/pdfs "
A few quick things:
I only have ftp access to the web site files. No access to web.config so rewrite rules are out.
I don't want to copy the old files back to "/pdfs" because it would mean managing two different pdf copies (there are over 500 pdfs).
Using file directories with a .pdf extension then add an index.asp file with a redirect i.e. "/pdfs/file_1001.pdf/index.asp" led to an error page because there's an override which doesn't allow site directory pages exposed.
Using a DNN module where I'd have to enter 500 files to redirect seems redundant when I only want to move a directory.
Any solutions to try?
In DNN if you have HOST level access you can modify Config files through the Host/Configuration manager page.
There you could modify the web.config file.
You might also look at the siteurls.config file (also accessible there) in which you could define some URL rules, might be as easy as
<RewriterRule>
<LookFor>/pdf/(.*)</LookFor>
<SendTo>/docs/pdf/$1</SendTo>
</RewriterRule>
The above rule is completely untested, not positive if it will do what you need or not.
I did a little more testing, and it looks like this won't work out of the box as a default setting that tells it to NOT rewrite PDF files, but I can't find the source code for that currently.
I've got a repository on github with a .css file in it. Is there any way to have github serve this file in a way that I can consume it in a web page?
In other words, I'd like to be able to reference this source file at github directly, from an HTML file on my local computer or a live domain. Something like:
<link rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
href="http://github.com/foouser/barproject/master/xenu-is-my-lover.css"
/>
I've tried including a<link> to the "raw" source file (http://raw.github.com...), but github serves its Content-Type as text/plain, and consequently, Chrome and FF are not adding its content as CSS styles to the page—the file's data is being discarded and a warning is shown in the debugger consoles of the browsers.
Important: rawgit.com is shutting down. Read more about other alternatives here - https://rawgit.com/
Found something really cool. You get the raw link as: http://raw.github.com/...
Simply fetch the files from rawgit.com (or cdn.rawgit.com) instead of raw.github.com and DONE!
UPDATE:
You can also use raw.githack.com if you want to serves raw files directly from Bitbucket or GitLab
GitHub repos aren't web hosting, you should push that stuff up to a service specifically designed to serve files, like pages.github.com.
Check out https://gitcdn.link/ . Seems to work well.
Rawgit.com has shut down.
First Visit RawGit as suggested earlier
Next copy your file path from github into the RawGit box
RawGit will automatically produce two refrences to your web page
The Development and Production refrence
refrence the development link in your webpage if you are still developing
save/upload then reload your webpage
if there was no change it means your browser has saved your former refrence
clear your browser data then reload
Hope that helps?
You have to use RawGit which, is a part of MaxCDN, serve files directly from the GitHub repository with the correct content type header.
Full tutorial, click here
I have a web app project that I will be starting to work on shortly. One of the features included is going to be a content management system where users can add content and then that content will be combined with a template and then output as a regular .html file. This .html file would then be FTPed to their own web host.
As I've always believed in not reinventing the wheel I figured I'd see if there are any quality customizable CMSes out there that do this already do this. For instance, Blogger.com allows you to post all of your content to your account there; but offers the option to let you use your own hosting. Any time you publish a new article then a new .html page is generated (as well as an updated index page with links to the new article) and then the updated content is FTPed to your own server.
What I would like is something like this that I can modify to more closely suit my needs.
Required Features:
Able to host on my own server
Written in PHP
Users add content through their account, then when posted it is FTPed as .html to their server
Any appropriate pages are also updated to link to the new content (like the index page or whatnot)
Templateable
Customizable
Optional (but very much desired) features:
Written in CodeIgniter or a similar PHP framework
While CodeIgniter isn't strictly required, I would very much prefer it. It speeds up development time and makes things much easier to implement.
So - any suggestions? I've stumbled across a few CMSes that push to remote servers as static pages, but the ones I've found all are hosted on the developers servers which means that I cannot modify it at all.
Adobe Contribute might work for your situation. A developer/designer creates a set of templates with Dreamweaver and publishes the templates. Authorized users can then create pages based on the templates and only make changes within the editable regions. It includes systems for drafts and reviews prior to publishing (via many options, including ftp) and incorporates automatic version control. It can work with static html pages or dynamic pages like php.
Sounds like you need a separate application that can do this for you.
For example, you should be able to write something that queries Drupal's menu router and saves the output (with curl) to a directory and then run's rsync to push your content where you want it to go.
Otherwise your requirements are likely to be outside the scope of a typical CMS. Separating this functionality will give you better options.
You'd need to write a filter for your URLs too. It's a bit of work...
Hope that helps!